<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:38.19468+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ji-nei-jin/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ji-nei-jin/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ji nei jin</name>
    <name type="chinese">鸡内金</name>
    <name type="latin">Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli</name>
    <name type="english">chicken gizzard lining</name>
    <name type="japanese">keinaikin</name>
    <name type="korean">kyenaegeum</name>
  </names>
  <category>Relieve Food Stagnation</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Spleen</channel>
    <channel>Small Intestine</channel>
    <channel>Bladder</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Strongly reduces Food stagnation and strengthens the Spleen&apos;s transporting function</summary>
      <indication>Food accumulating in the digestive tract</indication>
      <indication>Food stagnation arising from Spleen deficiency; strong in action yet still suitable where the Spleen is weak</indication>
      <indication>Indigestion with fullness and distension of the epigastrium and abdomen</indication>
      <indication>Childhood nutritional impairment</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Secures Jing, holds in urine and stops enuresis</summary>
      <indication>Bedwetting, frequent urination and incontinence</indication>
      <indication>Spermatorrhea or seminal emission</indication>
      <indication>Cloudy urine</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Transforms hardness and dissolves stones</summary>
      <indication>Stones of the urinary tract or gallbladder</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
